Faculty

Director Karen Stein

Karen Stein English Dept

Professor of English and Women's Studies, received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1962, her M.A. from Pennsylvania State University in 1966 and her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1982. She was one of the co-founders of the Women's Studies Program at URI. She has written and spoken about women as writers and subjects of literature. Her current research interests include Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, American women poets, utopian fiction by women, and women and science. Her recent book Margaret Atwood Revisited focuses on the Canadian novelist, critic and poet. From 1995-97 she served as Chair of the English Department at URI.

Stephen D. Grubman-Black, Communicative Disorders-Women's Studies

Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo (Department of Speech Communication), holds a Joint Appointment as Professor of Communicative Disorders and Women's Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Currently Coordinator of the Bachelor of General Studies Degree Program and the Academic Advising Program at URI's Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Steve divides his work among administration, teaching, and scholarship. Steve developed a section of WMS350 (Enforced Silences and Natural Recovery from Childhood Sexual Victimization) which focuses on challenging the heterosexist and patriarchal institutions which continue to damage and kill women, girls and boys. He is the author of Broken Boys/Mending Men, and offers trainings for professional helpers as well as workshops for male survivors. Current research focus is investigating and challenging the lack of care and regard for disenfranchised and poor victims of male violence in this rape culture in which we live. If we're not part of a resolution and reconciliation, then we are the problem!

Donna M. Hughes

Donna Bickford, Full Time Lecturer

Donna M. Bickford, Ph.D., (URI 2000) is a lecturer in the Women's Studies
Program. She taught in Finland during the Fall 2003 semester under a
Fulbright grant. Her areas of interest are contemporary women writers,
literature of the Americas, transnational comparative literary criticism,
and the connections between literature and social change. Her articles
have been published in Transformations, Radical Teacher, and Pedagogy.

Affiliated Faculty

Professors

Alexa Albert, Sociology
Sona Aronian, Language
Laura Beauvais, Management
Winnie Brownell, Dean of Arts and Sciences
Josie Campbell, English
Mary Cappello, English
Dorothy Donnelly, English
Wilfred Dvorak, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences
Cynthia Hamilton, African and African American Studies
Sandra Ketrow, Communication Studies
Carolyn Livingston, Music
Barbara Luebke, Journalism
Helen Mederer, Sociology
Jean Miller, Nursing
Lynn Pasquerella, Philosophy
Kathryn Quina, Psychology
Nedra Reynolds, College Writing Program
Wendy Roworth, Art
James Starkey, Economics
Sharon Strom, History
Jean Walton, English

Associate Professors

Ann Danis, Music
Lynn Derbyshire, Communications
Nancy Eaton, Mathematics
Susana De Los Heros, Languages
Doris Kirchner, Languages
RosaMaria Pegueros, History
Joelle Rollo-Koster, History
Andrea Rusnock, History
Catherine Sama, Languages
Marie Schwartz, History

Adjunct Professors

Barbara Barker, Biology
Noel-Anne Brennan, Sociology
N. Adria Evans, English
Janet Hagen, Women's Studies
Annie Lally Milhaven, Theology
Eugenia Wild, Counseling

Faculty Honors